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Heart Clinical Trials

At Genesis Heart Institute, you may get an opportunity to enroll in a clinical trial that tests the safety and effectiveness of a new cardiovascular therapy. In the Quad Cities, you’ll find this option at the Heart Institute because we emphasize innovation so we can better help patients. If you’re interested in a clinical trial, ask your doctor about whether it’s right for you. We’ll help you explore all your treatment possibilities.

Participating in Clinical Trials

To help determine whether you’re eligible for a certain clinical trial, a health care professional will review your medical history. You also may need to receive health screenings, including blood and urine analysis. Your age, sex, previous treatments, type and stage of disease, and other health conditions could affect your eligibility.

If you qualify for a clinical trial, you can choose whether to take part. By enrolling, you’ll gain access to a promising treatment that’s not widely available, and you’ll contribute to medical research that may benefit other patients. But it’s important to remember that your condition may or may not improve during the study. And, like established therapies, new drugs or procedures may cause side effects.

Talk to your physician to make sure you fully understand what the clinical trial would involve. Even if you decide to take part, you may leave the study at any time.

Current Heart & Vascular Clinical Trials

Find cardiovascular clinical trials at Genesis that are now enrolling participants. Learn more about the Genesis Research Program here.

The purpose of this study is to categorize sleep apnea patients based on their reason for sleep study referral and their level of adherence, and examine whether this categorization has an effect on key health outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to show that data collected about the use of the CardioMEMS HF System in patient care are similar with data collected in a controlled clinical study. This study will be done at up to 150 clinical sites in the United States (US). There will be 1,200 patients included in the study.

This study wants to know what kind of care and what kind of resources people with heart failure use after leaving the hospital. The researchers want to collect information from patients to find out what kind of support and care is the most helpful during a time that can be overwhelming to many people.

The ISCHEMIA study compares two standard treatments for ischemia of the heart to learn which one is better. Ischemia of the heart occurs when there is decreased blood flow due to narrowing in one or more of the heart arteries because of the buildup of cholesterol.